Tags that split the market
Candidate, client, hiring manager, referral source — tag once and filter everywhere, including in ⌘K search, so a name search never mixes the two sides.
Recruiting is relationship arbitrage under a clock. Candidates cool off, clients go silent, and the placement you lose is usually the one where nobody followed up on day nine. Forward keeps both sides warm without you living in a spreadsheet.
Submission goes in, feedback doesn't come back, and nobody chases. Forward dates the chase the moment you send, and reminds you on a working day.
Great people who said 'not right now' six months ago are your cheapest pipeline. Forward resurfaces them on a rhythm instead of on a whim.
You talk weekly during a search and vanish afterwards. Forward keeps a light touch cadence running between briefs, which is where repeat business comes from.
Salary expectations, notice period, the reason they'd move — said on a call, never typed. Dictate the debrief and Forward writes it onto the record.
Do Next shows eleven items: four candidate chases, three client feedback nudges, two intro follow-ups, and two people worth a warm call.
Screening call. You talk for ninety seconds afterwards; Forward logs comp expectations, notice period and the two roles they'd consider.
A client replies about a shortlist. Forward attaches the email to the deal, updates the open task's date and doesn't spawn a duplicate.
Call Checkup lists five placed candidates hitting their six-month mark — a call each, and two of them know someone hiring.
Nothing was tracked twice, and nothing landed on Saturday.
Candidate, client, hiring manager, referral source — tag once and filter everywhere, including in ⌘K search, so a name search never mixes the two sides.
Run a client pipeline with fee value alongside a candidate pipeline with stage. Stale deals mark themselves after 30 days of silence.
CVs, terms of business and offer letters stored encrypted against the right record, previewable in-app including spreadsheets — not scattered across email attachments.
A daily queue of people worth a call, chosen by how long it's been and how much the relationship matters, so keeping warm becomes a habit rather than a project.
Not if you need job-board posting, structured applications and compliance workflows. It replaces the second system most recruiters run alongside the ATS: the spreadsheet or inbox where the actual relationships and follow-ups live.
Yes. Tag people by side of the market and filter every view by tag, and run separate pipelines for client business and candidate placement so the two never blur.
Only the accounts you connect, and only to log messages against contacts and pull out commitments. You can exclude any person or whole domain, and personal threads can be kept out entirely.
That's the point of Call Checkup: people worth a nudge who have gone quiet surface on a schedule, so the passive candidate you spoke to nine months ago actually gets the call.
Recruiters don't lose deals to competitors as often as they lose them to silence. Forward's job is to make silence visible while there's still time to fix it — $19 a month, everything included, and your data exports to CSV whenever you want it.